This annual conference features outstanding Cornell senior student research in various humanities fields, student panel discussions, and oral presentations of student papers with postdoctoral and faculty respondents. The day will consist of brief presentations (approximately 10 minutes each) followed by Q&A, organized into panels based on common themes. Q&A and panels will be moderated by Professor Larry Glickman, (Interim Director, Humanities Scholars Program), and Drs. Peter Caswell and Ani Chen, (Postdoctoral Associates, Humanities Scholars Program). Join in and pose your own questions to the student presenters! 

The event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences Humanities Scholars Program (HSP) housed at the Society for the Humanities and will include senior presenters from HSP and across humanities departments.

Breakfast and lunch will be served. A reception will be held from 4:00 - 5:00pm at the A.D. White House following the conference.

Open to the public.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Breakfast will be available in the A.D. White House dining room from 9:00 – 10:30AM

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Panel 1 – Guerlac Room

Penelope Day (Government and Philosophy) — Under the Guise of the Nation: Exposing the Coloniality of Modern Statehood

Neva Peltz (Government) — Mother Algeria: Reproducing the Nation through (Anti)Colonial Eyes

Tom Sandford (History) — De Vita Claudii and a Defense of Biography

Panel 2 – Room 110

Olivia Ochoa (Spanish) — ¿Cómo se dice, "shame"? Un viaje narrativo realizado por inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos / How do you say, “pena”? A Narrative Journey Taken by Immigrants in the United States

Chit Sum Eunice Ngai (Anthropology) — "It's a Worthy Job Paying People For": Home Care Workers and Clients in Tompkins County, New York

Panel 3 – Room 109

Cassidy Cheesman (Asian Studies) — Ikimasu! Hai! Female Sports Culture in Junior and High School in Hiroshima, Japan

Alexis Jones (College Scholar) — African Diasporic Migration and Freedom Studies (ADMiFS): On the Place-Making and Belonging of black Migrants in Japan

Peter Wenger (College Scholar) — Nazis in the American Imagination

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Panel 1 – Guerlac Room

Julius Enarsson Enestrom (Government) — Real and Perceived Assertiveness in the US-China Relationship: Applying Natural Language Processing Methodologies to Understand Narrative-Formation

George Sarbinowski (Government) — Erdoğan’s Balancing Act: How Turkish Relations With NATO and Russia Have Remained Consistent Under AKP Leadership

Panel 2 – Room 110

Vinh Nguyen (Linguistics) — Code-switching in the Modern Online Sphere: What Primes It?

Ethan Kovnat (Philosophy) — Autism and Humean Moral Agency

Imani Finkley (English) — By AI: Authors, Literature, and Large Language Models

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

BREAK

Lunch will be available in the A.D. White House dining room from 11:30AM – 1:00PM

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Panel 1 – Guerlac Room

Paley Armone (English) — Modernity’s Mirror: The Spiritual and Sociopolitical Odyssey of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ and ‘DAMN.’

Lily Josephson (History) — Tagged Tracks: Exploring Hip Hop's communal canvas

Panel 2 – Room 110

Julia Nagel (English) — Fashioning a Photographic Icon: The Dissemination of Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"

Miguel Barrera (History of Art) — Reconsidering the American Landscape Painting Through Indigenous Knowledge, Art, and Craft

Lindy Liu (Art History and German Studies) — The Repatriation of Cultural Objects - From China to the World

Panel 3 – Room 109

SarahElizabeth Lee (English) — And She Lived Happily Ever After: the Evolution of Feminism in Fairy Tales from Seventeenth-Century France to Today

Emily Pecsok (Linguistics) — How can they both be right?: Faultless disagreement and semantic adaptation

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Panel 1 – Guerlac Room

Victoria Rinn (Government) — Clash of Codes: Deciphering Identity within the Legalese of Hong Kong and China

Elizabeth Rene (Government) — Radicalism in Robes: Thomas and Scalia Weighing Originalism and Precedent

Court Hyken (Government) — Embargoing to Targeting: The politic logics of Counter-Terrorism Financing Sanctions

Panel 2 – Room 110

Hannah Drexler (English and College Scholar) — "Which is the True Reading?": A Study of Innovations in Historical Fiction in the Works of Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead

Cathryn Lamour (English) — To Freedom: Exploring the Trauma, Resilience, and Power of Black Women in Literature

Rebecca Sparacio (English) — Testimony, Trauma, Translation

Panel 3 – Room 109

Sarah Young (English) — ‘I Think't No Sin’: Shakespeare's Bed Trick Reconsidered

Annie Riedel (English) — It was All a Dream: Shakesepare, Hollywood, and the Infinitely Adaptable Text

Amy Wang (English) — Laughing Corpses, Heartsore Clowns: Carnival and its Limits in Poe and Wilde

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Panel 1 – Guerlac Room

Tatiana Bustos (English) — Reimagining Grease the Musical: An examination of Latinx and Chicano cultural identities in Grease the Musical

Samantha Surdek (English) — Eros and Empire: Reimagining Colonial Otherness and Molly Bloom's Resistance in James Joyce's Ulysses

Angel Katthi (PMA) — Peerless

Panel 2 – Room 110

Katherine Esterl (History) — Translation at Work: U.S. Labor and the Project to Define Ecuador's Unions, 1947-1965

J(aved) Jokhai (Anthropology and College Scholar) — Comparative Articulations of Islam In the Shadow of War on Terror's Theoretical Discourse

Pierce McPherson (History) — Reimagining Liberalism, Challenging Imperialism: Perspectives of Walter Lippmann, W.E.B. Du Bois, and George Padmore on American Hegemony

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Reception – A.D. White House